The Moderate Soprano

I want to give my country a model of perfection. My country needs cheering up. I'm the man to do it. In 1934, John Christie embarks on building an opera house on his Sussex estate, his vision of the sublime realised by a group of refugees from Nazi Germany, with his wife, necessarily, cast in the lead. The Moderate Soprano tells how Glyndebourne, this most English of institutions, derives its character firstly from a woman and secondly from an Austrian and two Germans. The play premiered at Hampstead Theatre in 2015, and opened at the Duke of York's Theatre, London, in 2018.